For battles in the same place or in the surroundings, see Battle of Nassau.
Raid on Charles Town
Date
19 January 1684
Location
Charles Town, the Bahamas, West Indies
Result
Spanish victory
Belligerents
Spain
England
Commanders and leaders
Juan de Alarcón
Gov. Robert Clarke (POW)[1]
Strength
201 men 2 vessels
Casualties and losses
Unknown, minimum.
700~ prisoners 4 ships destroyed 1 ship taken
The Raid on Charles Town, or Spanish raid on New Providence, was a Spanish naval expedition on 19 January 1684 (O.S.) led by Cuban corsair Juan de Alarcón against the English privateering stronghold of Charles Town (later renamed Nassau), capital of the Bahamas.
The Bahamas harboured pirates and privateers who preyed on Spanish ships.[2] Governor Clarke, described as "one of Cromwell's officers"[3] justified privateering as necessary for the colony's defence, but in one letter of marque he authorized offensive attacks on Spanish holdings far from the Bahamas.[2] Clarke's encouragement of privateering contravened and jeopardized the 1667 and 1670 treaties of Madrid, which established peace between the English and Spanish.[2] On 19 January 1684 (O.S.), a Spanish expedition reduced the Bahamian settlements and defenses to ruins, carrying off the governor in chains, together with the inhabitants. Clarke was tortured to death and his body was roasted after an approved judgement set by the Inquisition.[4] John Oldmixon claimed that Clarke died being roasted on a spit after the Spaniards had captured him.[5][6]
The Bahamas subsequently remained devoid of any recognizable English presence until December 1686.[1]
^ abMarley 2005, p. 5.
^ abcMancke/Shammas p. 255.
^Marley 2010, pp. 76–77.
^Seitz p. 104.
^Craton/Saunders p. 99.
^McCusker p. 179.
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